# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Western States Equipment Company
> OSHA SIR `2024076569` · 7/18/2024 · POCATELLO, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by object handled by person  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Jacks
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Western States Equipment Company
- **Location:** 8403 South 5th Avenue, POCATELLO, IDAHO, 83204
- **NAICS:** 532490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a small jack stand. The employee removed the pin to lower the jack stand with their left hand and their right middle finger went into the pin hole. The stand slipped eight inches and pinched their right middle fingertip, resulting in surgical amputation.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*